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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 01, 1999
Applicant:
Carl G. Demarcken, Cambridge, MA (US);
Inventor:
Carl G. DeMarcken, Cambridge, MA (US);
Assignee:
ITA Software, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for generating a diverse list of N travel options Rts from a larger list of travel options Ts, is described. The method includes generating a prioritized ordered list of requirements Rs and sorting the list of travel options Ts by an ordering function F to produce a best-first ordered list Tswith the list of options being optimized travel options for a set of travel requirements R in accordance with the ordering function F.